Fertilizer-distrubuter.



` W. T. HAB/KEY.

FBRTlLIZER DISTRIBUTBR. APPLIcATIoN FILED 11116.14, 190s.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

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No. 930,597. Specficatonof Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

Appiication sied August 14, 190s. serial No. 448,557.

show the manner of adjusting the furrow closers.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

In the drawings, the machine comprises a main beam 6 having mounted thereon a hopper 7 for containing fertilizer and having the usual distributing spout 8. A distance in advance of the said spout 8 and secure to the main beam 6 is a standard 9 depending from the latter and having connected to its lower end a furrow opener or plow point 10 which is adapted to form an open furrow inthe ground upon the advance movement of the machine. Secured to the said beam 6 in rear of the fertilizer hopper 7 and depending from the beam are bearing brackets 11 in which is journaled a shaft or axle 12 carrying a wheel 13 adapted to travel in the open furrow. f Secured to said s haft 12 is a sprocket wheel 14 over which is trained a To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that f, vvtnifroiv T. HARKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harperville, in the county of Scott, State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Fertilizer-Distributers; and lt do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of he invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a fertilizer distributer and more particularly to an agricultural macl -ne for opening a furrow, distributing fertilizer therein and subsequentlyv closing the furrow.

rEhe primary object of the invention is the provision of a fertilizer distributer comprising a furrow opener supported upon a main cam the latter having mounted thereon a fertilizer distributer having agitating means within the saine and adapted to distribute fertilizer in the open furrow in rear of the iurrov.' opener, adjustable furrow closers supported by the said beam and a wheel operating the agitator means within the fertilizer distributer and adapted to engage the ground upon the draft of the machine.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a fertilizer distributer having means for adjusting shovels forming furrow vlot-.ters and for maintaining the sanie'in their adjusted positions.

A further object of the invention is to simplify the construction of the fertilizer distributer and correspondingly reduce the cost of manufacturing the saine so that it may be sold at a low price.

lilith these and other objects iii view the invention for example consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter niorefully described and illustratedin the accompanying drawings which disclose the preferred forni of embodiment of the invention. owever, it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications may be made such as come properly within the scope of the claim hereunto appended without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ln the drawings: Figure 1 is aside view of the invention. Fig. 2`is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is-'a rear end view. Fig. 4 is a detail longitudinal sectional view of the hopper and fertilizer distributing means. Fig. 5 is a side elevation partly in section to a sprocket wheel 16 mounted on the projecting end of a shaft 17 journaled centrally m the hopper 7 and which shaft carries a hub 18 provided with radially disposed curved agitator or stirring arms 19 working within the said hopper.

Connected to the beam 6 near the rear end thereof by a pivot 20 is a raising and lowering frame compri ing outwardly diverging bars 21 the lat-ter connected or united at ,their rear ends by a cross rod 22 carrying lock nuts 23 at opposite sides of the said bars 21 and which rod is vertically movable in a guide slot 24 contained in an L-shaped plate 25 mounted vertically in the rear end of the said main beam. On opposite sides of the L-shaped plate and in threaded engagement with the said rod 22 are lock nuts 26 whereby the said swinging frame can be locked in its vertically adjusted position.

Depending from each bar 21 is a plow standard 27 having fixed thereto and to the saidV bars brace rods 28 and upon the lower ends of the standard are fixed shovels forming furrow closers" 29 which are adapted to close the open furrow and the same being disposed in rear and at opposite sides of the wheel carried by the main beam. Fixed to the bars 21 are upwardly inclined handle bars 30 for guiding the machine when in operation.

Within the bottom of the hopper is a slide valve 31 having a regulating arm 32 to sprocket chain 15 the latter also trained over f means, a raising and lowering frame, a slotted L-shaped plate secured to the rear f l end` of the main beam, a cross rod fixed to thefranie, lock nuts on said rod and adapted to engage the plate to hold the same in its adjusted position and coverers carried by the raising` and lowering frame.

In testimony whereof, l aHX ture, in presence of two witnesses.

l/V ELTON T. HARKE Y.

my signa lVitnesses BARNEY S. BIsnoP, R. M. Ross. 

